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Definition: EXOCCIPITAL

Part of Speech Definition
Noun 1. The exoccipital bone, which often forms a part of the occipital in the adult, but is usually distinct in the young.[Websters].
Adjective 1. Pertaining to a bone or region on each side of the great foremen of the skull.[Websters]
2. Rarely used base adjective of the adverb exoccipitally.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Adverb Form
(exoccipitally)
1. Virtually never used adverbial inflection of the rarely used adjective exoccipital.[Eve - graph theoretic]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license.

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Date "Exoccipital" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references)

Note: Exoccipital \Ex`oc*cip"i*tal\, adjective. [Prefix ex- occipital.]. (references)


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